Bingley Five Rise Locks, Leeds-Liverpool Canal

            Bingley Five-Rise Locks is a staircase lock on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Bingley.

The five-rise opened on 12 March 1774 and was a major feat of engineering at the time. When the locks and therefore the canal from Gargrave to Leeds was opened in 1774 a crowd of 30,000 people turned out to celebrate. The first boat to use the locks took just 28 minutes. 

The five-rise is the steepest flight of locks in the UK, with a gradient of about 1:5 (a rise of 59 ft 2 in (18.03 m) over a distance of 320 ft (98 m)). The intermediate and bottom gates are the tallest in the country. Because of the complications of working a staircase lock, and because so many boaters (both first-time hirers and new owners) are inexperienced, a full-time lock keeper is employed, and the locks are padlocked out of hours.

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Bingley (show map)

Taken on: March 11, 2010

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Camera:	DiMAGE A200
Aperture:	f/5.0
Exposure Time:	0.004 sec (1/250)
Focal Length:	9.9mm
ISO:	50
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	PaintShop Pro 14.00
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